Alpine fattening herb
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Alpine fattening herb ( Sagina saginoides ), |
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The alpine fattening herb ( Sagina saginoides ) is a species of the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae).
description
The alpine fattening herb grows as a hibernating green, perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 2 to 8 centimeters. The prostrate to ascending stem is mostly unbranched. The opposite leaves are bare, narrow, linear with a short spike tip.
The flowering period extends from June to August. The flower stalk is up to 2.5 inches long. The hermaphrodite flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . The mostly bald calyx is 2 to 3 millimeters long. The five petals are a little shorter than the calyx.
The capsule fruit is five-toothed and with a length of 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters a little to half longer than the calyx.
The chromosome number of the species is 2n = 22.
ecology
The alpine fattening herb is an herbaceous chamaephyte or hemicryptophyte .
Occurrence
The alpine fattening herb is an arctic-alpine flora element . It occurs mainly in the mountains of Europe and the Caucasus . It is also found in other parts of northern Eurasia , in Greenland and from North America to Mexico .
In Central Europe , the Alpine Pearlwort thrives on lime-poor clay - or clay soils , which also peat or humus can be and moist and fairly rich in nitrogen to be.
In the Alps it occurs sparsely, in the southern Black Forest and in the Bavarian Forest it is rarely found. There, in the alpine climate , it populates snow valleys , lean lawns , cattle stores , fat meadows and spring meadows . It is insensitive to kicking . In Central Europe it is a weak species of the class Salicetea herbaceae, but also occurs in the Alchemillo-Poetum supinae from the association Polygonion avicularis or in societies of the associations Cardamino-Montion or Nardion. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises in the Tyrolean part of the Muttekopf up to 2433 m above sea level.
Systematics
The first publication took place in 1753 under the name ( Basionym ) Spergularia saginoides by Carl von Linné Species Plantarum , 1, p. 441. The new combination to Sagina saginoides ( L. ) H. Karsten was in 1882 by Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten in Deutsche Flora. Pharmaceutisch-medicinische Botany ... , p. 539. published. A homonym is Sagina saginoides Dalla Torre . Other synonyms for Sagina saginoides ( L. ) H. Karsten are: Sagina linnaei C.Presl , Alsine linnaei (C.Presl) EHLKrause , Alsine saginoides (L.) Crantz , Alsinella saginoides (L.) Greene , Phaloe saginoides (L.) ) Dumort. , Sagina baumgartenii Simonk. , Sagina linnaei var. Macrocarpa (Rchb.) Beck , Sagina macrocarpa (Rchb.) Maly , Sagina micrantha (Bunge) Fernald , Sagina procumbens L. , Sagina saginoides subsp. macrocarpa (Rchb.) Soó , Sagina saginoides var. Hesperia Fernald , Sagina saginoides var. macrocarpa (Rchb.) Moss , Sagina saxatilis (Wimm.) Wimm. , Sagina spergella Fenzl , Spergella macrocarpa Rchb. , Spergella saginoides (L.) Rchb. , Spergella saxatilis (Wimm.) Schur , Spergula micrantha Bunge , Sagina saxatilis (Wimmer) Wimmer .
It is worth mentioning the hybrid between Sagina procumbens and Sagina saginoides , which is known as Norman's fattening herb ( Sagina × normaniana Lagerh. ), And which is often sown as a border plant in cemeteries, because its dense, moss-like cushions prevent the emergence of "weeds" prevented.
literature
- Otto Schmeil , Jost Fitschen (greeting), Siegmund Seybold: The flora of Germany and the neighboring countries. A book for identifying all wild and frequently cultivated vascular plants. 95th completely revised u. exp. Edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011,
- Henning Haeupler , Thomas Muer: picture atlas of the fern and flowering plants of Germany (= the fern and flowering plants of Germany. Volume 2). 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4990-2 .
- Oskar Sebald, Siegmund Seybold, Georg Philippi (Hrsg.): The fern and flowering plants of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1: General Part, Special Part (Pteridophyta, Spermatophyta): Lycopodiaceae to Plumbaginaceae. 2nd, supplemented edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-3322-9 .
- Dietmar Aichele, Heinz-Werner Schwegler: The flowering plants of Central Europe. 2nd Edition. Volumes 1–5, Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-08048-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alpine fattening herb. In: FloraWeb.de.
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Page 380. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. ISBN 3-8001-3131-5
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 1, IHW, Eching 2001, ISBN 3-930167-50-6 , p. 503.
- ↑ First published by Linné 1753 scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .
- ^ Sagina saginoides at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 9, 2014.
Web links
- Alpine fattening herb. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Distribution map for Germany. In: Floraweb .
- Sagina saginoides (L.) H. Karst. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- Distribution in the northern hemisphere
- Thomas Meyer: Data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )
- Pictures: [1] , [2]
